CHRISTMAS, NOT WINTER BREAK by Nick Turner

Nick Turner is the 15-year-old son of a pastor here at my church, Dale Turner. He wrote this piece for his high school paper and has since experienced a measure of persecution from his teachers, students, and others in authority.

As the Christmas season rolls around, many people get excited about their time off. Finally, it is time for Christmas vacation.

But nowadays, the title, “Christmas vacation,” is offensive to many people. We now must call it, “Winter Break,” or as PV calls it, “winter recess.”

Yet, there is one thing I do not understand: why is it that we are allowed to say words like Kwanzaa and Hanukkah,
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but when the word Christmas comes up, it brings a chill to the bone?

People who do not like this word just need to chill out.

Fun W/ Millions:: TIME TO KILL by Warren C.

I had some time to kill before picking up my parents at the airport, so I stopped by the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City. As I pulled my car into the mall I saw a bus stop with a ton of people. I pulled out a stack of 100 Million-dollar bill Gospel tracts and started to get to work. Most of the people at the bus stop were quite happy to receive the bill; there were a number of young adults and some senior citizens. In particular a young Asian woman with a UCLA sweatshirt got quite offended at me passing out bills and talking to people.
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“F#*# Y#$,” she said vehemently.

“You’re a Christian just trying to convert people!” she said with disgust.